Fabrice Melquiot is a playwright, poet, novelist and director. He began his career as an actor at the theatre de Millefontaines. The majority of his works are published by l'Arche, including The Devil on All Sides and Kids (2002), and more than 50 other plays. The Devil on All Sides was named "Theatrical discovery of the year" by the French National Critics' Union. In 2008 he received the Académie Française's Prix Théâtre for his collected works. Since 2012 Fabrice Melquiot has been director of Am Stam Gram in Geneva, an international center of theater for children and youth.